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Key Facts About This Single Malt Scotch

Bottler:

Founder: Salim Duriaux-Hogga

Distillery: Blair Athol

Region: Highlands, Scotland

Age: 12 years old

Distilled: June 2010

Bottled: July 2022

Cask Type: Full term in a single refill sherry hogshead

Cask Number: 301692/2010

Alcohol by Volume: 56.9%

Bottled: Natural colour and non chill filtered

Outturn: 387 bottles

Bottle Size: 500ml

Blair Athol 12 Year Old Tasting Notes

Salim's tasting notes

Nose: Sweet Christmas spices and raisins are quickly noticeable.

Palate: Warm spices, candied apples and oranges, notes of dark chocolate

Finish: A gently dry, woody character. 

About this WITL release

Blair Athol is one of Diageo's workhorse distilleries. Much of its malt whisky ends up in Bell's blended scotch. It's a beautiful distillery built in 1798 in Pitlochry. It has a nutty character resulting from cloudy worts and short fermentation. Allowing controlled levels of solids to come across in the wash still adds a deep, rich meatloaf character. Matured in a sherry hogshead, this is a more unusual example of Blair Athol's whisky, which is usually aged in bourbon casks.

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